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A Trip to the Smoky Mountains
blackspanielgallery, Fireflies begin their evening displays here the last weekend of April. This year they didn't start until halfway through May. Were you in the Smokies during firefly months and did you see them synchronously flashing on and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/09/2018
Keswick to Threlkeld Railway Walk, Cumbria
Veronica, Thank you for letting us do the Keswick-Threlkeld walk with you! What is being done with the rest of the (30-3.5=) 26.5-mile line?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/09/2018
Get Your Copy of Edvard Munch's Painting The Scream
katiem2, Great idea! Like you say, the emotion, the person and the topic must have been important to Munch since he made different versions that have been aesthetically and financially significant enough to have been burgled and recovered a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/09/2018
Across the Roof of Wales
Saxons had been coming in for many a year before Vortigern, as garrison troops,so Vortigern only perpetuated a Roman policy. Moreover, Vortigern invited the Jutes, who settled in Kent. The reason for introducing Saxons, Angles and Jutes was to ...
frankbeswick, on 06/04/2018
Across the Roof of Wales
Indeed it is believed that Vortigern invited the Saxons over to help him defend his lands.
Veronica, on 06/04/2018
Three Years On: how retirement is now
I have been told that the type of examination that I am marking is being gently phased out. I noticed at the meeting of this exam paper that with the exception of the principal all the team were retired people.I suspect that we will be among the ...
frankbeswick, on 06/04/2018
Across the Roof of Wales
While the Saxons were capable of savagery towards the Britons, the Britons were capable of savagery to each other. In fact some modern thinking suggests that many Saxons were introduced by British Welsh] monarchs as mercenaries to help them ...
frankbeswick, on 06/03/2018
Across the Roof of Wales
Sorry that I have been delayed in replying, but I have been working in Cambridge and the internet at my hotel crashed.
Veronica is probably right in what she said about AE. The relationship between Saxon and Welsh is very limited. Bear in ...
frankbeswick, on 06/03/2018
Across the Roof of Wales
BSG that's a great question and also an interesting one.
Old English developed from the Anglo Saxon culture and Native Briton, the Angle "a" later becoming an "e" therefore Angleland - England. The Saxons were fairly savage to the native ...
Veronica, on 06/03/2018
Across the Roof of Wales
Do they use the combined AE as one as Old English did at one time? Kike (AE)lla, King of Northumbria in the ninth century, and (AE)thelwulg, Alfred the Great's father. I suspect there is a crossover between welch and Old ENglish. Or, perhaps ...
blackspanielgallery, on 06/02/2018
Across the Roof of Wales
I remember those names from my childhood when you being older would go off walking. You would come back and tell us about Cwm ( Cum ) Idwal ( Id... wall ) etc . A lovely post.
Veronica, on 06/02/2018
A Trip to the Smoky Mountains
Perhaps it will, but the protection of a National Park is what keeps the scenery in the Smoky Mountains. Tey are the highest of the Appalachian Mountains, but not so much so as to really overshadow north Georgia. As for the Carolina side, it ...
blackspanielgallery, on 06/01/2018
A Trip to the Smoky Mountains
My vacation in the Smokys was over 20 years ago, so I'm sure it has changed a lot since then. In fact lots of people who move out of Florida go to the Carolinas, north Georgia, and similar locations where the climate is not as bad at the north, ...
dustytoes, on 06/01/2018
A Trip to the Smoky Mountains
While the original article was a travel article, I have no problem sharing what I know of the area, and invite anyone else who knows more to augment the comments. This site is for sharing information, and others have been quite generous sharing ...
blackspanielgallery, on 06/01/2018
A Trip to the Smoky Mountains
Frank, I should add that it is a very safe place. On one trip the news reported a great crime, and got the same press as a murder would in other places. In another case I heard a waitress say a person was arrested for drunk driving, and she ...
blackspanielgallery, on 06/01/2018